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Kinship caregiver urges better outreach and supports for an estimated 50,000 Michigan children raised outside formal child welfare
Summary
A kinship caregiver and Michigan Kinship Care Coalition steering member testified that roughly 50,000 Michigan children live with kinship caregivers outside the formal child welfare system and described barriers to accessing TANF, mental-health, and other supports.
Deb Frisbie, a kinship caregiver and steering member of the Michigan Kinship Care Coalition, testified to the appropriations subcommittee about what she called the “hidden” population of kinship caregivers who care for children outside the formal child welfare system and often lack access to supports.
Frisbie said national and state data sources — including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Kids Count Data Center, and AFCARS (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System) —…
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